| Title: |
Reminiscences of Gracie Fields
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP87-A68
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Popular Arts Project, Part III
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| Description: |
Recollections as touring child performer in England, early career, life as a member of an English touring revue company; introduction to films, attitudes about film work, stage, radio, vaudeville; Northern England, life in an industrial town; becoming a commedienne; state of entertainment in England; decline of the comedy song.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 49 leaves, Tape: 1 reel
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1959 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Fields, Gracie, 1898-1979
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1898
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| Speaker occupation: |
Actress; Comedienne
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| Age at speaking: |
61
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| Document date: |
1959
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| Interviewer: |
Franklin, Joan; Franklin, Robert
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Actresses; Motion pictures; Oral history; Vaudeville
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Children as actors; Comedians, English; Fields, Gracie, 1898-1979; Musical revue, comedy, etc
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0018466-13909
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